Passenger Health at Risk!!!!!!!!!!

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In one of the funniest media hysteria episodes yet, researchers have found a "new" health hazard aboard airplanes. It turns out that when cabin altitude is higher than ground level, the oxygen level in the blood goes down. Who'd have thunk?

Oxygen levels on the ground averaged 97%, but once their plane was in the air they fell to 93% on average, the study published in the Anaesthesia journal said.

Some physicians put hospital patients with blood levels below 94% on extra oxygen.

Air passengers 'risking health'

 

[VampyreGTX]

Not necessarily new or media hysteria, they even mention in the article this mainly applies to passengers that suffer certain medical conditions. This is a concern, my father hasn't been able to fly due to his heart condition for over 10 years now and my uncle nearly died after a flight when he stubbornly ignored his doctors recommendations not to fly with his advnaced stage of lung disease (he's pretty much got about 1/2 a lung left) so it is a danger.

To the average person like me and you, 94% oxygen saturation in the blood is nothing to worry about.

"...a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority, the UK air regulator, said healthy passengers need not worry.

"The oxygen levels would not be harmful to healthy passengers, we are only talking about people with health problems, such as lung and heart.

"The advice to those people is consult with your doctor before flying, and that still stands.

"We have always known oxygen levels fall when a plane is flying."

 

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I just thought it pretty funny that it took a new scientific study to "discover" what's been known for decades and then it gets presented as news under a scary headline. Hopefully this one was paid for by British taxpayers instead of us.